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Encampment, "as the Mongols call Urga, which is not a Mongol word at all, but merely a modification of the Russian" urgo, "a camp or palace, is a network of palisaded lanes enclosing, not comfortable houses and offices and banks, as in Mai-ma-chin, but temples and lamasseries.

A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia Elizabeth Kimball Kendall

The name comes from a urgo-archaic-farcical root word for needlepoint.

"What breaks my heart are the really useful things that are now everywhere. A suzani can totally rock a bedroom..." Ann Althouse 2007

Wouldn’t our industry and economy be handicapped by having to pay twice as much for energy? ybzesaoj urgo Says:

Matthew Yglesias » More Price Gouging 2007